"Hi there, now that we can communicate, on behalf of my species I just want to say that until you bring all of those involved in the BP oil spill to
justice, and stop ruining our environment with your oil, and radioactive waste, trash and other junk we will remain silent, if you do the right
things, then maybe we can really talk"

Originally posted by Josonic
If we do end up being able to directly communicate with dolphins I could see them one day being labeled as intelligent genus with humans being the
only other one. They could be given their own rights just like you and I have.

I agree; would be creepy maybe the dolphins would evolve or we could help them evolve over a long period of time to become amphibious and they would
join us in our Galactic Domination lol.

Or we could find another water planet for them to live on if they like.

Would be neat though..... I'm sure we could do this with Chimpanzees too. They seem to be capable of being taught many things..

I've heard that dolphins are even telepathic, so if that is the case then they are likely to hold a mental capacity beyond ours and they would be the
teachers and we would be the students. I hope its true.

And they say that humans are the only self conscious beings, dolphins are conscious beings too! Sure they have more limited intelligence but it shows
that we're not the only ones, thats freaking insane! =D

Finally we will be able to tell them the wonders that is american idol, left/right political systems, and the twitterverse.

I wonder if the dolphins would vote for Obama...naa, they seem more kucinich type people.

In all seriousness, this is a very cool idea...it would be interesting to see, if this is possible, how deep and complex their language truely is..see
if they are just running on some basic needs, or have..poetry night in front of the ships so to speak.

Originally posted by coquine
Last week we were in Florida on a beach. And I wanted to see dolphins, and joked "I'm going to send them a psychic call and ask them to come." It
was a joke, but I did make an effort, unbeknownst to anyone around me.
Exactly five minutes later a group of them appeared in front of us and were jumping and playing! My husband just kept saying, "that is so wierd, that
is so weird..."

Probably just a coincidence, but I wonder if we could learn to communicate without any tools at all.

edit on 18-5-2011 by coquine because: (no
reason given)

Well, it probably was a coincidence, however, if we were able to communicate with them, then it could lead to confirmation if it is in fact true...who
knows...they may have a few things they could teach us (for a prime supply of tuna no doubt)

In recent times, dolphins have begun to be seen as more than just an aquatic mammal. They have receieved the status of 'sentient beings' and have
recently been described in this article as 'non-human persons'.

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